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      08-26-2011, 11:08 AM   #1
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Order '11 or '12? Owner loyalty ending?

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Trying to decide over next few days whether I pull the trigger on a '11 order or wait for the 12s....

Here's the deal:

I have to take delivery of the car before Oct 31, b/c I have the $1000 Drive Event discount, so I will either need a late late '11 build or an early early '12 build.

My dealer has said that I am also eligible for a $1000 owner loyalty discount because I am getting out of an '09 X3 lease. But that loyalty program will end September as well, so he's pushing me to order the '11. Has anyone heard this?

Will be a 3 year lease so not worried too much about the model year like I would if I was buying the car.

ALSO, I want to do the Performance Center delivery as well, to make the timing more tricky.

So my main questions are:

1. Will the '12 likely have a higher lease interest rate (money factor)?

2. Will the owner loyalty program end next month, negating my ability to take advantage of $1000 off?

3. Can I order a late '11 build, for SC pickup, and have them hold it for me till late October? (don't want to pay on two cars for any weeks longer than I have to)

Specs to be ordered are:

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(still on the fence about the Sport Activity Package)!

thanks!
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      08-26-2011, 11:21 AM   #2
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If you order the sports activity package then order the 2012 for the anthracite headliner. If you dont, then get the 2011.
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      08-26-2011, 03:14 PM   #3
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If you order the sports activity package then order the 2012 for the anthracite headliner. If you dont, then get the 2011.
Judd, I believe u got the SAP too..
I got SAP

It wud hav been to get the anthracite headliner.. not something to lose sleep on... but just wished it came with 2011 too
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      08-26-2011, 03:19 PM   #4
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Board,

Trying to decide over next few days whether I pull the trigger on a '11 order or wait for the 12s....
thanks!
Go for the 2012 because it will come with the new twin-scroll Turbo four cylinder engine - more power and better mileage than the 2011 28i's six cylinder. Dealers are taking 2012 X3 orders now.
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      08-26-2011, 05:05 PM   #5
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Trying to decide over next few days whether I pull the trigger on a '11 order or wait for the 12s....
thanks!
Go for the 2012 because it will come with the new twin-scroll Turbo four cylinder engine - more power and better mileage than the 2011 28i's six cylinder. Dealers are taking 2012 X3 orders now.
BMW has not announced the N20's arrival in the X3 xDrive28i for 2012 in the US and Canada. The N20 has only been confirmed for the Z4 sDrive28i, the 528i, and the F30 328i.
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BMW has not announced the N20's arrival in the X3 xDrive28i for 2012 in the US and Canada.
It's true that it hasn't been officially anounced; but BMW Customer Service has told me that the 2012 X3 28i will be a four cylinder - at least for the US (I didn't ask about Canada).
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      08-27-2011, 09:31 AM   #7
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It's true that it hasn't been officially anounced; but BMW Customer Service has told me that the 2012 X3 28i will be a four cylinder - at least for the US (I didn't ask about Canada).
Very unlikely. BMW has certified a 3.0l X3 xDrive28i as the 2012 model. The only downsized engine they've certified so far is in the X1, which they then decided to postpone.

The 3.0l '28's:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onroad/...301_3d0_u2.pdf

X1:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onroad/...304_2d0_u2.pdf

All 2012 cars:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onroad/.../2012/2012.php
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Also, 2012 production starts in September, so orders now are almost certainly for 2012 unless there are a few '11 production slots left.
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I placed my order today (yeah!), it will be a MY 2011 and one my dealer already had in the pipeline. I am buying mine and it was a concern that I should perhaps have gone for a 2012 however, if this car is as good as people are saying, I do not anticipate getting rid of it any day soon, so I think MY won't be too relevant to it's value a few years down the line... However, please chip in here if my theory is flawed.....
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      08-27-2011, 11:05 PM   #10
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I placed my order today (yeah!), it will be a MY 2011 and one my dealer already had in the pipeline. I am buying mine and it was a concern that I should perhaps have gone for a 2012 however, if this car is as good as people are saying, I do not anticipate getting rid of it any day soon, so I think MY won't be too relevant to it's value a few years down the line... However, please chip in here if my theory is flawed.....

Congrats! You prob did the right thing....!

I'm still on the fence.

Does anyone know about the end of the Owner Loyalty Program??

That $1000 could make the diff for me
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